SB831,1,31An Act to renumber and amend 946.465; and to create 946.465 (2) of the 2statutes; relating to: failure to charge a mandatory GPS device and providing 3a criminal penalty.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law requires the Department of Corrections to track a person using a global positioning system tracking device if the person committed certain child sex offenses or if the person is on supervised release after having been committed for treatment as a sexually violent person. Under current law, a person who tampers with, or blocks, diffuses, or prevents the clear reception of a signal from, such a GPS device is guilty of a Class I felony. Under this bill, a person who is subject to such GPS tracking is guilty of a Class I felony if he or she intentionally fails to charge the GPS device.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SB831,2,31946.465Tampering with a global positioning system tracking device.2(intro.) Whoever, without the authorization of the department of corrections, 3intentionallydoes any of the following is guilty of a Class I felony:

SB831,2,74(1) Intentionally tampers with, or blocks, diffuses, or prevents the clear 5reception of, a signal transmitted by, a global positioning system tracking device or 6comparable technology that is provided under s. 301.48 or 301.49
is guilty of a Class 7I felony.

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946.465 (2) Intentionally fails to charge a global positioning system tracking 10device that is provided under s. 301.48 if the person is subject to lifetime tracking 11under s. 301.48 (2).